Living in the Sunken Place: Notes on Jordan Peele’s ”Get Out” as Gothic Fiction

• Authors: Jorge Bastos da Silva
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The gothic imagination often expresses a sense of the instability and/or vulnerability of human identity, bearing either on specific individuals or on the species as a whole. The present article examines the 2017 film Get Out, written and directed by Jordan Peele, in order to highlight the ways in which its exploration of the abovementioned topic relates to the tradition of the gothic as it is recognisable in literary texts dating from as far back as the eighteenth century. Relevant titles include Walter Scott’s Count Robert of Paris and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, as well as examples from film.

DE

Der Artikel enthält Zusammenfassungen nur in Englisch.

FR

L'article contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

Keywords

EN

gothic; identity; human nature; animal; possession

DE

FR

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2019

online

2019-07-03

Contributors

author

Jorge Bastos da Silva

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Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/lsmll.2019.43.2.125-133